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| | Braque, Georges on Encyclopedia.com |
 | | Georges Braque Une exposition inédite du peintre français Georges Braque, cofondateur du cubisme, a débuté dimanche en Grè. | | | After World War I, in which he was badly wounded, Braque veered away from the angularity of early cubism and developed a more graceful, curvilinear style, predominantly painting still life. | | | From Picasso to Pollock: classics of modern art: highlighting the aesthetic vanguard from Cubism through Abstract Expressionism, this wide-ranging exhibition features works by some of the last century's most... |
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| | Encyclopedia article on Georges Braque [EncycloZine] |
| | Georges Braque (May 13, 1882–August 31, 1963) was a French painter and sculptor, and with Pablo Picasso one of the inventors of cubism. | | | Violin and Candlestick, Paris, spring 1910 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) | | | Braque was injured in the First World War, after which he moved away from the harsher abstraction of cubism, towards the hermetic and synthetic forms—the most abstract forms of cubism. |
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| | Georges Braque -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | He grew up in (A port city in northern France on the English Channel at the mouth of the Seine) Le Havre and studied in the evenings at the (additional info and facts about Ecole des Beaux-Arts) Ecole des Beaux-Arts from about 1897 to 1899. | | | In 1912, they began to experiment with collage and papier collé. | | | Georges Braque was born in (additional info and facts about Argenteuil-sur-Seine) Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. |
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| | tapestry - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about tapestry |
| | Some interesting 20th-century tapestries have been woven in France from cartoons by Rouault, Braque, Lurçat, Picasso, and Calder. | | | Important public collections in the United States that contain fine examples of tapestry weaving are those in the Metropolitan Museum (including the magnificent Hunt of the Unicorn series at the Cloisters) and in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | | | In 1893 tapestry looms were set up in New York City. |
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